MONTHLY REPORT. 



Depautlient of Agriculture, 

 Statistical Division, June 15, 1875. 



Sir : I respectfully present for publication a digest of tiie crop- 

 Teturns for June, with the results of investigations in the divisions of 

 entomology and chemistry, the current domestic and foreign market- 

 reports, and minor official and other statistics of rural industry. 

 Respectfully, 



J. E. DODGE, 



8tatisticia,n. 

 Hon. Frederick Watts, 



Commissioner. 



DIGEST OF THE CROP-RETURNS FOR JUNE. 



WHEAT. 



The condition of winter- wheat is still reported low. There has been 

 material improvement in some of the Western States, and Kansas, 

 especially, seems determined to maintain her high reputation as a wheat 

 district. The averages for condition in the winter-wheat district be- 

 yond the AUeghauies are as follows : West Virginia, 60 ; Kentucky, 81 ; 

 Ohio, 57; Michigan, 80; Indiana, 71; Illinois, 64 ; Missouri, 55; Kan- 

 sas, 97. In West Virginia freezes have been followed by drought. Im- 

 provement has been marked in Kentucky, but the losses have been too 

 serious to be repaired. In Ohio the remnant still alive is generally 

 late, and in some i)laces has been injured by the fly, chinches, and by 

 drought. The prospect is better in Michigan than elsewhere between 

 the mountains and the great river. The crop is light and patchy in 

 Indiana, but is improving. The crop of Illinois was too badly injured 

 for more than jjartial recovery. 



In the Gulf States the wheat is a positive success, particularly in 

 Texas, where a large increase in acreage has been made, and where 

 our correspondents insist upon making the condition very high, the 

 average of the percentages of condition being 115. In Arkansas and 

 Tennessee there was some injury from frost, which the genial season 

 has not since repaired. 



Going north on the Atlantic coast, the high condition of winter-grain 

 becomes gradually reduced, State by State, until Maryland is reached. 

 Pennsylvania, by its good culture and use of the drill, maintains a higher 

 condition than Maryland. New York succumbs to the severity of win- 

 ter's frosts, and reports a prospect for scarcely more than half a crop. 



The condition of spring-wheat is higher, but is scarcely a full average, 



